Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission Is Imploding (Need to put “Voter Fraud” in air quotes; there is no such thing, certainly not on any significant level that bears any concern. It’s all an excuse for Republicans to suppress minority voting.)

Senate Republicans Go Their Own Way on Tax Reform (“The GOP was supposed to be unified on taxes after internal divisions destroyed their health-care drive. But the party’s majorities in Congress now have two competing legislative proposals once again.”)

This Is The End (A conservative Republican over at The Bull Elephant writes, “We failed to lead. We failed to govern. We failed to be obedient to facts. We played politics with our country and we lost.”)

Why Virginia Is a Warning for Republicans Nationwide (“‘This is the Prop 187 effect,’ Tom Perriello, a former congressman from Virginia who challenged Northam from the left in the Democratic primary but campaigned hard for him in the general election, told me. ‘California Republicans got one good election and lost the state forever. Trump is the Prop 187 of America.’…The new activists embraced one another like, ‘holy shit, humanity may have just been saved.'”)

Democrats see a digital breakthrough in Virginia wins (“A year after Republicans leapfrogged the Democrats’ digital capacities on the way to President Donald Trump’s election, progressive groups combined spent nearly $3 million on an innovative effort to modernize the party’s digital advertising. The effort, organized by Planned Parenthood and coordinated by veteran Democratic digital strategist Tara McGowan, reached 2.4 million Virginia voters without Northam’s campaign having to spend any money at all on digital advertising.”)

15 takeaways from Virginia (“Democrats can do well in middle-class and affluent suburbs. They can do really well running against Trump. Northam won by huge margins in Loudon (20 points), Fairfax (more than 35 percent) and Arlington (78 to 20 percent) counties. These professional and college-educated voters, rather than non-college educated white working class voters, may be the key to Democrats winning back the House majority in 2018…There is a price to be paid for race-baiting and xenophobia.”)

Democrats eager for chance to challenge Comstock (“After a evening of electoral success Tuesday, Democrats are collectively licking their chops at the portion of the House of Representatives they aim to bite off next November; few seats look more appetizing than the one held by Rep. Barbara Comstock, R-10th.” You are political toast, Barbara Comstock, whether you realize it or not yet.)

Democrat concedes Virginia House race; three others will decide if GOP holds majority (“Republicans have narrow leads in the remaining three contests: In District 40, Del. Tim Hugo (R-Fairfax) leads Donte Tanner by 115 votes. In District 28, Republican Robert Thomas is ahead of Joshua Cole by 86 votes. In District 94, Del. David Yancey (R-Newport News) is hanging onto his seat by just 13 votes more than Democrat Shelly Simonds. Provisional ballots are supposed to be counted by Monday, and recounts in the three remaining races cannot commence until the election results are certified shortly before Thanksgiving.”)

House elections bring new diversity to Virginia (“Altogether, at least 11 new Democratic women will be joining the 100-person House, which previously had only 17 female members. With three races still too close to call Thursday, that number could still increase by one. Observers say the new diversity could represent a sea change for the chamber, control of which was still up in the air Thursday.”)